Yoshie and others don't have to like Kerry, but Democratic voters did, in rather large numbers. And 400,000 of them have contributed money to his campaign in amounts that dwarf what past candidates had raised at this time. I believe its more than Bill did as incumbent President in 1996 and with a far broader base of small contributors.
Why don't all the backbiters just lay back for the next six months-- since it doesn't matter who wins, so why waste your breath-- and then you'll have plenty of time to say "I told you so" when Kerry makes the expected compromises once in power?
Nathan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:45 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Anybody But Kerry the Dole of 2004?
The Anybody But Bush crowd -- aka the Chicken wing of the Democratic Party -- are a fickle bunch. After wasting their time attacking Ralph Nader against their own best interests, they have begun to sound a note of Anybody But Kerry: e.g., James Ridgeway, "John Kerry Must Go" (April 27, 2004); and Marc Cooper, "Not Too Late: Anybody But Kerry" (April 27, 2004). Unfortunately for Cooper and Ridgeway, it is too late, as John Nichols acknowledges. . . .<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_montages_archive.html#108386146548 892484>. -- Yoshie
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